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[450b]
as I then set it forth! You don't realize what
a swarm1 of arguments you are stirring up2 by this demand, which I foresaw and evaded to save us no end of
trouble.” “Well,” said Thrasymachus,3“do you suppose this company has come here to prospect
for gold4
and not to listen to discussions?” “Yes,” I
said, “in measure.” “Nay, Socrates,”
said Glaucon, “the measure5 of listening to such discussions is the whole
of life for reasonable men. So don't consider us, and do not you yourself
grow weary

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